ERP Software

Intro

“Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” is a cloud-based, business management software for small and medium-sized businesses. It provides a mechanism to record various business transactions in an efficient & integrated manner. It enables automation and streamlining of various business processes, providing end-to-end visibility, tracking & reports.

The vast set of “out of the box” functionalities and features enable your business to start experiencing vast efficiency improvements from day 1. “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” offers in-depth features & integrated functionalities in Financial management, Supply chain management, Relationship management, Project & resource management, Warehouse management, Service order management & Manufacturing business areas.

Furthermore, “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” offers flexibility to easily add customized features to suit your specific business needs. It is done using the extensions approach, which preserves the core functionality and keeps extensions in a separate layer. This enables the upgrades to be fast and easy, providing you a new set of ever-evolving functionalities from Microsoft every 6 months.

Scale

“Microsoft Dynamics NAV” is one of the most popular ERP software in the world with over 150,000 companies and 2,000,000 users using it worldwide, in the small and medium businesses space. “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” is the cloud version of “Microsoft Dynamics NAV” and is seeing rapid adoption throughout the world and already has 15,000 + companies using it.

Microsoft Dynamics is supported by a strong community of over 2000 partners all over the world and has recently overtaken Oracle to become #2 in terms of ERP market share.

History

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the cloud version of an “on-premise” ERP software “Microsoft Dynamics NAV” or “Navision”. Navision’s roots can be traced back to 1983 when it was founded as “PC Plus”. Then in 1987, it was renamed “Navigator 1.00” and further to “Navision” in 1990. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. In 2018 “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” was formally announced. “Business Central” uses the strong 30+ years’ foundation of feature, functionalities, & robustness from Navision but with the additional power of web/cloud technologies and in a new Cloud avatar.

Unique Selling Point

Every famous ERP system in the market boasts of a rich set of features and functionalities but one thing that truly sets “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” apart and places it way ahead of the competition is the ease with which it integrates to other products in Microsoft ecosystem. Be it Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Power Apps, or Power BI.

After going for an ERP you will (more likely than not and sooner than later) find yourself looking for a “Low code – integrated BI reporting solution” to quickly create desired reports; or a “Low code – integrated app building solution” to provide your team in the field to quickly capture e.g. a query or sales quote using mobile phone/tablet. This is where “Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” comes equipped with prebuilt integration capabilities to “Power BI” & “Power Apps” that enable you to quickly create fully integrated, graphic, and amazing reports or mobile apps with low/no coding skills.

Licensing & Functionalities

“Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central” is available in three license types also known as subscriptions with fixed prices per user per month, namely:

Essentials

Premium

Team Members

 

Essentials covers:

Financial Management, Relationship Management, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management, and Human Resources Management.

Premium covers:

Everything in Essentials +

Service Management and Manufacturing

Team Members

For external users who won’t post any transaction but just want to view information or perform a simple task like submit timesheets.